Wayne High School - Anthonian Yearbook (Good Hope, OH)

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'nib K. ,.g:' 25' ESSAY ON ABRAHAM LINCOLN tBy Evangeline Hammanj Eta, i Abrahin Lincoln, one of the world's greatest countrymen, was born on the twelfjfi of February, 1809. He started life in very humble circumstances, and his Tateii success is all the more significant because of this. In early boyhood, Lincoln idevelopedcan intense desire for knowledge. He was eittremely interested in litera- ture, and the books with which he soon became familiar were: The Bible, Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, Weems Life of Washington and the poems of Robert Burns. Shakespeare was his favorite poet, and the greatwvorks of this Writer gave Lincoln much food for thought. Ile went to school for a short time, but his mother was one of his best teachers, and he loved her dearly. Lincoln also obeyed and re- spected his step-mother, and she thought well of him. He was very influential, and when he talked, men listened. When he was seventeen he could write legibly, and he was very accurate in arithmetic. He took up surveying and was successful at it. Lincoln was the type of fellow who achieved that which Ile sought. He was very strong and tall, had coal black hair and a clean cut face. He was strong of mind and character, and neither drank, smoked nor gambled, he allowed himself to grow into splendid manhood. , Following Lincoln's seventeenth birthday he struggled onward, trying to make the best of his meager surroundings. The Lincoln family consisted of his father, step-mother, his sister Sarah, the three 'children of his step-mother and Honest Abe. In 1830 the family moved from Indiana to Illinois. Lincoln aided his father in constructing a cabin in which he often sat by the fire-place, studying and writing with charcoal until a late hour at night. His first employment was work on a. flat- boat. llc was storekeeper, postmaster of New Salem, deputy sheriff and lawyer, while yet young. In spite of all Lincoln's philosophic ideas and earnest struggling he did not escape the natural emotions of other men. He fell deeply in love with Ann Rumedge, the daughter of James Rutledge, one of the founders of New Salem, an intimate friend of Lincoln. Unfortunately, Ann died shortly after their engagement, but lincoln always cherished her memory sacredly. At twenty-five he became a member of thc Illinois legislature. On the third of March, 1837 he began his anti-slavery measures which were ended in the Procla- mation of En1neipation and in the amendment to the Constitution abolishing slivcry entirely. At this time it took courage to write against slavery because there wei c many people forwarding itg but it required such a man as Lincoln to accomplish superior duties. His early speeches, which were extremely intelligent for one so young and with so many inconveniences, brought him great renown. One of his notczl speeches before he was twenty-eight years of age was on the Perpetuation of our Political Institutions. ln all of our records of heroic deeds of great men th'-rc is no man showing a deeper or truer sense of patriotism than our Abe Lincoln. 32 -- Unk W.. g.......r- -'.......4-I.- , .-,.. 1 1 ggi